portatif
\pɔʁ.ta.tif\
The verdict
“portatif” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,535. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,535
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que l’on peut aisément porter pour le déplacer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-portatif · portatif · French
portatif · rank #36,535 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,535
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polyester
Nearest frequency peer: polyester (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « portatif »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- phénoménolo…
phénoménologie
63,470 corpus weight
- pipelines
pipelines
63,469 corpus weight
- polyester
polyester
63,467 corpus weight
- portatif
portatif
63,466 corpus weight
- poulie
poulie
63,464 corpus weight
- poursuive
poursuive
63,463 corpus weight
What this shows « portatif » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | portatif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.ta.tif\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « portatif »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around portatif (IPA \pɔʁ.ta.tif\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,535 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Que l’on peut aisément porter pour le déplacer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for portatif, with forms such as "oprtatif", "porattif", and "porrtatif". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "portait", "portail", "portais", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is portatif, spelled P-O-R-T-A-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Que l’on peut aisément porter pour le déplacer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how portatif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les peuples préhistoriques ont eu des conventions monétaires, de coquillages, pierres, pépites ou lingots de métaux précieux, de valeur intrinsèque relative constante, pour acheter des objets moins portatifs dont le possesseur était titulaire. C'était des constitutions financières démocratiques de l'âge d'or.
Pourquoi personne n’a pensé à acheter des purificateurs d’air portatifs comme le recommande Québec solidaire ?
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oprtatif
- porattif
- porrtatif
- portaitf
- portatfi
- portatiff
- portattif
- porttaif
- porttatif
- potratif
- pportatif
- protatif
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of portatif - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "portatif", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).